Posted by: Lindsey Grant on 11/30/2009
Q: Shoshana, you wrote 11,952 words at this year's Night of Writing Dangerously Write-a-thon. Are you equal parts fast and dangerous when it comes to noveling? What else can you do really quickly?
A: I would say that I lived both fast and dangerous at the Night of Writing Dangerously. Going
Posted by: Chris Baty on 11/30/2009
We'll have a complete stats breakdown on the blog in the next few days, but I just checked in on the winner's totals (32,000 winners as of 11:30 PM Pacific) and saw that we've hit a 19% win rate for the first time in modern NaNoWriMo history.
We're also ahead of last year on collective word count, total sign-ups, donor percentage, number of brown-haired Scorpios with green eyes writing fan fiction, and pretty much everything else that matters.
And the validator is still open for several more timezones! So exciting!
For some background on all the 2008 records that we are currently demolishing like a ferret in a Lego museum, check out this blog post from last year. We thought 2008 was big. We didn't know what big was.
Congrats, everyone! I'm going to go geek out some more now!
Chris
Posted by: Chris Baty on 11/29/2009
Some down-and-dirty word-count boosters from Lindsey!
Posted by: Heather Dudley on 11/30/2009
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